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Fatigue is treated from conventional stress strain life and fracture mechanics point of view the bases of fracture mechanics are very well illustrated stress corrosion and corrosion fatigue are treated both from electrochemical very understandable by mechanical engineers and fracture mechanics stand point in a manner useful for design. Fatigue corrosion is the reduced ability of a metal to withstand repeated stress when exposed to the combined action of stress and a corrosive environment as compared to the effects of stress alone. Fatigue and corrosion in metals 1 chapter 2 morphological aspects of fatigue crack formation and growth 21 introduction the aim of this chapter is at providing some elementary information about the various fatigue mechanisms that can take place in the materials that is an essential background for the study of fatigue and the comprehension of what may have been happened in a work piece that . This textbook suitable for students researchers and engineers gathers the experience of more than 20 years of teaching fracture mechanics fatigue and corrosion to professional engineers and running experimental tests and verifications to solve practical problems in engineering applications